Cosmetic surgeons face new rules on record keeping as ministers seek to avoid
a repeat of the breast-implant health scare affecting tens of thousands of
women.

Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, is warming to the idea of a national
register or database containing details about how many patients have
undergone different procedures. He has ordered an urgent review and will
meet officials tomorrow to try to establish the full facts.

The safety alert took on a new urgency when Transform, the cosmetic surgery
chain, told the Department of Health on Friday that 7 per cent of implants
supplied by the